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and virginia. this area is very particular. and all the right thing about eagle creek were about the springs and the fishing and the waters and the hills. and the last report showed there had been so many discharges from the negative that every stream, every creak has no longer a quiet life and all the streams have dried up and if you want to hike along the wilderness act from eagle mountain over to the garden of the gods they thought it worked in colorado so they created the garden of the gods of southern illinois it is a beautiful part of the national forest but you have to pack in your own water now. because the companies have killed the hidden mortars and there is no more moonshine and no more people. the abuse of the land has gone hand-in-hand and we have lost thousands upon thousands of acres of land but also bought only a few heil farm land productive land that has never been put back into any kind of economic productivity. but an appellate judge, less than 3% of all homeland destroyed by mo
and virginia. this area is very particular. and all the right thing about eagle creek were about the springs and the fishing and the waters and the hills. and the last report showed there had been so many discharges from the negative that every stream, every creak has no longer a quiet life and all the streams have dried up and if you want to hike along the wilderness act from eagle mountain over to the garden of the gods they thought it worked in colorado so they created the garden of the gods...
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there's a heaviness that hangs over the town of west virginia. like the fog from the nearby big coal river, it seeps through the streets, past the empty store front, on up the mountainside to the rows of house that is overlook the town. it has become the invisible resident, a testament to the flight that has taken place over the years, even as the profits of the mining industry have soared. many of the buildings on the main street are vacant, pocked by broken windows, boarded up with plywood. only a few businesses barely hold on, an auto shop, a law office, a motel. the sign for a local diner boa boasts hot fried baloney sandwiches. inside, a handful of people gather at the counter for their midday dinner. one can hear the exhaustion. people are tired, although the town is located within boone county, the leading coal producing city in the state, nearly 30% of residents live below the poverty line. ever the faceless lover, coal has left much of waxville high and dry. this town is drying, judy bonds mourns in the storefront office of coal river mo
there's a heaviness that hangs over the town of west virginia. like the fog from the nearby big coal river, it seeps through the streets, past the empty store front, on up the mountainside to the rows of house that is overlook the town. it has become the invisible resident, a testament to the flight that has taken place over the years, even as the profits of the mining industry have soared. many of the buildings on the main street are vacant, pocked by broken windows, boarded up with plywood....
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there were no more games out in southern virginia. but we avoided those areas but still trying to do a lot of the same things. i hope that helps. that is as specific as i can make. i think we of time for a couple more. >> from the standpoint of covering the story obviously it was something that needed to be done. from looking at the broadcast media perspective where you have a lot of managers, editors, people like that's been around as rim's watching tv and they all seem piquancy what they are covering. do you see them going on covering the story and reacting to one another creating a feeding frenzy? it's really something that theoretically should be in the book but it's not in the book. it's the thing most often asked. do they feed on each other, do they built on the each other for sure. here's what i experienced when i taught to journalist interviewed about 75 journalists. i would say why did you write so and so and they would say i wrote what? in the meantime the had written -- it was on the eight months later they had written 200
there were no more games out in southern virginia. but we avoided those areas but still trying to do a lot of the same things. i hope that helps. that is as specific as i can make. i think we of time for a couple more. >> from the standpoint of covering the story obviously it was something that needed to be done. from looking at the broadcast media perspective where you have a lot of managers, editors, people like that's been around as rim's watching tv and they all seem piquancy what...
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the governor saying please the dust buildup is so that what is going to happen in kentucky and west virginia is going to happen here. please, help us. and the governor did nothing. the company did nothing 119 miners blight in the accident including three of the four people who had written the governor asking for help. but 105 americans died, 105,000
the governor saying please the dust buildup is so that what is going to happen in kentucky and west virginia is going to happen here. please, help us. and the governor did nothing. the company did nothing 119 miners blight in the accident including three of the four people who had written the governor asking for help. but 105 americans died, 105,000
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borders books and music in fairfax, virginia, hosts the 45-minute lk. >> i'm going to give you a little snippet from the book and leave lots of time for questions. if you want to sit, there are three seats up there. it's not going to be as entertaining as not sitting down. ok. of after a long road through personal and professional setbacks, joe mohammed, accompanied by lee malvo, arrived in montgomery county maryland in early 2002. after having already killed five people and wounding several others in a month long arc of robbery and revenge, through the southwest and the south that included prior interlewds in maryland, the two snipers began the rampage that would draw worldwide attention with an errant shot through a michael's craft store on october 2. 2002. later that day, they would kill their first person, and the next day, five more. nearly all in the confines of montgomery county, maryland. over the next three weeks, four more murders and three unsuccessful attempts tobago place with woundings, mainly in virginia, between d.c., and richmond. but conclude willing back in montgomery
borders books and music in fairfax, virginia, hosts the 45-minute lk. >> i'm going to give you a little snippet from the book and leave lots of time for questions. if you want to sit, there are three seats up there. it's not going to be as entertaining as not sitting down. ok. of after a long road through personal and professional setbacks, joe mohammed, accompanied by lee malvo, arrived in montgomery county maryland in early 2002. after having already killed five people and wounding...
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their marriage, however, was not recognized as legal in their home state of virginia. when they return they were arrested in the middle of the light in their own bedroom with a framed copy of their marriage certificate hanging over their bed and they were if convicted, sentenced one year in jail and told if they leave -- they could leave the state for 25 years in lieu of going to jail. so they left but they began a litigation that land to the landmark decision. now, like same-sex marriages, cross racial unions were a post with a variety of punitive arguments both political and theological. in hindsight however, we can clearly see that it discussed was at work. indeed it didn't hide its hand the idea of racial purity was proudly proclaimed for example in their racial integrity act of 1924 in virginia. ideas of taint and contamination were ubiquitous. if people felt disgusted and contaminated by the thought that an african-american had drawn from the same public drinking fountain or had gone swimming in the same public swimming pool were used the same toilet or plates an
their marriage, however, was not recognized as legal in their home state of virginia. when they return they were arrested in the middle of the light in their own bedroom with a framed copy of their marriage certificate hanging over their bed and they were if convicted, sentenced one year in jail and told if they leave -- they could leave the state for 25 years in lieu of going to jail. so they left but they began a litigation that land to the landmark decision. now, like same-sex marriages,...
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two except the call press number nine. >> hello this is virginia at labyrinth books. >> hello virginia at labyrinth books. [cheers and applause] mumia abu-jamal. >> i am here at the bookstore with our distinguished panel cornel west is here. >> my dear brother my dear brother how were you? [laughter] >> i am so pleased to hear your distinctive zero clint introduction. [laughter] >> we love you and respect you brother and one to you to be free and so many of us believe you did not do it your voice is so important we know you believe everybody from president two policemen but we believe the were in dissent and we think god that your voice is still alive and sounding so rich and deep. >> if i may i would like to read for just a moment. >> i am patricia fernandez kelley mr. abu-jamal i have not had the pleasure of meeting new personally but i did read your book and i think it is fantastic thank you for that contribution. >> thank you so much i think dr. west will affirm very rare the do we hear from our readers it is a pleasure. >> i have many students who will be delighted to correspond w
two except the call press number nine. >> hello this is virginia at labyrinth books. >> hello virginia at labyrinth books. [cheers and applause] mumia abu-jamal. >> i am here at the bookstore with our distinguished panel cornel west is here. >> my dear brother my dear brother how were you? [laughter] >> i am so pleased to hear your distinctive zero clint introduction. [laughter] >> we love you and respect you brother and one to you to be free and so many of...
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. >> host: let's go to virginia. michael, good morning. a republican. >> caller: yes, how are you this morning? >> host: doing fine. go ahead with your comment. >> caller: hey, i'm very grateful for all this young man is saying. let me say this, i worked on the maybe campaign and i was over seven counties in west virginia, okay? and i understand where you're coming from about, you know, mccain not being a conservative and the ground game and everything. but we also need to place some blame on young people or whoever was working in the field that didn't take their own initiative. i had -- i started an internship and had 27 interns from james madison university. no one told me to do that. i did that on my own accord. and so, therefore, you have to -- the ground game has to be creative. and do their own thing. and know how to bring people in. so you can't totally blame it on maybe. i think a lot of it has to do with the people on the ground that you got working for you and how professional they are. >> guest: well, a lot has to be pinned on m
. >> host: let's go to virginia. michael, good morning. a republican. >> caller: yes, how are you this morning? >> host: doing fine. go ahead with your comment. >> caller: hey, i'm very grateful for all this young man is saying. let me say this, i worked on the maybe campaign and i was over seven counties in west virginia, okay? and i understand where you're coming from about, you know, mccain not being a conservative and the ground game and everything. but we also need...
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there is no other reason to bring the boats there because they were not going to virginia. he has gone and convince to the british there will be an attack on staten island and the eventual result is the fact that his army and the french army could move across new jersey without being attacked and as i am sure you are aware they make it down to virginia and cornwallis surrenders at yorktown. and that gives you pretty much of a run through on the spike refuse during the american revolution. there are many more codes and ciphers better in the book and at this point* i would like to open up to some questions and hopefully i have some answers. please wait for the microphone. >> could you comment on nathan hale? >> nathan hale was a very poor spy. i don't know if you are familiar with what has been found out scottish general by the name of grant his papers were found just became recently available and he identified as that robert rogers actually got him to tell him he was a spy but he should have kept his mouth shut. he thought rogers was also an american spy and because the oust
there is no other reason to bring the boats there because they were not going to virginia. he has gone and convince to the british there will be an attack on staten island and the eventual result is the fact that his army and the french army could move across new jersey without being attacked and as i am sure you are aware they make it down to virginia and cornwallis surrenders at yorktown. and that gives you pretty much of a run through on the spike refuse during the american revolution. there...
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caller: i wanted to know if you thought that what happened in the 1960 election in illinois and west virginia had a major impact on president nixon's attitudes towards the powers that be as the need and what have you. and did you have any conversations regarding, i believe his top lawyers at the time wanted him to challenge the electoral count in illinois which would have given him the presidency. but from what i've known i had an indirect conversation, second party conversation with the president background 1966. his reasoning for not challenging that election, i believe was a would have torn the country apart in a time in the '60s when we had a very series problem with nuclear confrontation with the russian. and if you would, please, give me your thoughts, any conversations, and maybe that made him a little better to the press and what have you, because of the stolen election. >> guest: yes, that's a good summary of the situation. and nixon's position was indeed that it would be too divisive if he did so. what was never really fully reported is yes, there were problems in the chicago area,
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out in northern virginia and then they are expanding the metro in the maryland suburbs. from what i gathered you would be against that due to your idea that public transportation has not yet paid for itself? >> it's a fact. public transportation in general -- now, there is one i will say that has really done a fine job when it comes to public transportation. if i may say this, this isn't technically public transit, amtrak which has been federally subsidized. it too is not doing very well but the route from d.c. to new york is doing quite fine because, a, it's -- it's not a, heavily federally subsidized and more privately owned by amtrak and b, because people use it. >> my thought with eminent domain, my thought on eminent domain. do you support that idea and if that, in fact, is a government takeover by public land. >> that's a great question. i have a whole section on eminent domain and different court cases addressing eminent domain issue. there are two interpretations of eminent domain. there is the more positivist argument, the more legal positivist argument for emin
out in northern virginia and then they are expanding the metro in the maryland suburbs. from what i gathered you would be against that due to your idea that public transportation has not yet paid for itself? >> it's a fact. public transportation in general -- now, there is one i will say that has really done a fine job when it comes to public transportation. if i may say this, this isn't technically public transit, amtrak which has been federally subsidized. it too is not doing very well...
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the question i want to ask is a follow-up to a conversation virginia and i had with mark. i want to refer you all to his amazing website. it's full of very important resources on this case. and the issues that concern mumia. the question that we gravitated towards this morning that i would like to put into this room is of contextualizing the struggle for mumia's rights in a post-9/11 climate of the politics of fear and in what way the struggle has met new challenges. and how we think of meeting those particular ones. if you want to reflect on some of those aspects. >> well, i think in many wades, though, it's both 9/11 but also in the age of obama. i think that 9/11 took place during the age of reagan. it was a very, very different moment. well, it was the age of reagan but bush was a representative. actually, there's elements of carter and clinton that were elements of the age of reagan in terms of punitive policies when it comes to prison, in terms of eliminating and welfare and pushing persons oftentimes that let their entree into the industrial complex. it was the clin
the question i want to ask is a follow-up to a conversation virginia and i had with mark. i want to refer you all to his amazing website. it's full of very important resources on this case. and the issues that concern mumia. the question that we gravitated towards this morning that i would like to put into this room is of contextualizing the struggle for mumia's rights in a post-9/11 climate of the politics of fear and in what way the struggle has met new challenges. and how we think of meeting...
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beach, virginia,. >> was there anything else that you consulted in writing this book other than his rules? >> boy, that is a great question. you know, i think democracy in america i likes us, was one of the great books of all time. and i think some of the core principles of what american democracy is about are reflected in this movement. and so i think that was probably the other book that was most influential. >> thank you very much for your time. >> sure. >> public service, is one of the great innovations in american political and broadcasting history. thanks. >> will talk now with jonathan krohn, if he is all right with that. can you tell us how's it going with a new book? tells with the new book is about. >> it's about basic and modern america. >> what does that mean to you? >> well in the book i really, i really discuss how there are so many different types of views, neoconservatism, pay your conservatism, social conservatism, all these different groups that but there are four things i think that unite them. for the constitution, respect for human life, limited government and p
beach, virginia,. >> was there anything else that you consulted in writing this book other than his rules? >> boy, that is a great question. you know, i think democracy in america i likes us, was one of the great books of all time. and i think some of the core principles of what american democracy is about are reflected in this movement. and so i think that was probably the other book that was most influential. >> thank you very much for your time. >> sure. >>...
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time because he had recently defended a very high profile, sensational murder defendant out in rural virginia. was widely known by americans across all races and classes at the time. he wanted to attack segregation in a way that, of course, would be successful, the law of the land at the time was plessy v. ferguson, a 19th century supreme court decision that established the doctrine of separate but equal. and those words never appear in the decision to be sure, but the law was that so long as states, so long as the government provides separate and equal facilities for african-americans and for white americans, the constitution is satisfied. houston could not walk into court and ask a district court judge to overturn separate but equal. it would not work. the district court judge result is to have authority to do so. and secondly it was the way individuals live their lives. so the question became how was he going to attack this? and i would just like to briefly read two paragraphs here, and i see two paragraphs because the legal strategy was so brilliant in its simplicity that it can be summar
time because he had recently defended a very high profile, sensational murder defendant out in rural virginia. was widely known by americans across all races and classes at the time. he wanted to attack segregation in a way that, of course, would be successful, the law of the land at the time was plessy v. ferguson, a 19th century supreme court decision that established the doctrine of separate but equal. and those words never appear in the decision to be sure, but the law was that so long as...
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>> the track championship was in manassas, virginia. that was in 2005 with franklin butler. >> secondly, i would like to hear a few remarks about benny's god to raise driver who died last year and how viceroy cigarette sponsored the team and were able to compete on a national level? >> the track championship in 2005, we won the track championship with a white driver, franklin butler and franklin butler, and he had a brother, they were winning drivers at the late-model level and franklin butler even was very competitive and had wins at higher levels. that brings up the point where even some light drivers in nascar, they are pushed out of the sport because they don't have the money to compete because again it is not like basketball or football. franklin brother and his brother brandon butler were one of those drivers. when you are trying to develop a black driver from scratch you have to do it in steps. you can't go out like a white team and just take the bus driver and put them in the car and get instant results were get results in the f
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other newspapers and then i started freelancing and began working for smaller magazines such as the virginia quarterly review and the misery we do submitting personal essay some of which are revised in a book about my personal experiences in afghanistan and my thoughts about people they are in the country. i thought normally don't go into a daily story because i'm being more reflect in reporting is. >> give me an example of. >> or example there is one story in the book about some children that we took under her wing so i talked about the process of getting to know them, taking them for lunch everyday and enrolling them in schools and the problems i faced when i left and i had started this process with them and how to continue that because they created an expectation for them that i felt obligated to attempt to fulfill. >> who was funding all these trips? >> some of them were funded out-of-pocket, my pocket and mindy were wanted by knight ridder newspaper. >> this book, "the khaarijee" a chronicle of friendship and war in kabul, what period does it cover? does it cover all seven trips? >> it
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we would travel to washington from stand in, virginia. it was very impressive. here was of this very tall, handsome figure who you would walk down the senate's corridors with him and he would create a white with the various police people and other people giving way. he would take us around the senate and he drove a 1957 at that time thunderbird that was geared up like it was the cockpit of an airplane. it had more gadgets and stuff. for teenage boys, he was a great figure and a charismatic person for young guy. >> one of the other words that comes a lot is honesty. explained. >> to put it in context, i read the senator's autobiographical works where he had worked with co-authors and i don't think they ever found this material and years later in talking to him he told me he had taken a lot of material he had composed over the years and put it in the arizona historical foundation and when we did another project on was going to look at that and realize, really good stuff in here and it is pure barry goldwater because it is not by speechwriters or a staff person. it
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>> right now i am finishing up a stint at virginia commonwealth university where i taught creative writing in richmond and i'm going on to except a job at the university of richmond in the fall in teaching american studies. >> when jd comes marching home is the name of the book, laura is the author the, sasha is the retired her. >> coming at next come booktv presents after words an hourlong discussion between guest us and the author of a new book. this week jack matlock, ambassador to the soviet union under president reagan, discusses his but "superpower illusions: how myths and false ideolgies led america astray - and how to return to reality". in the book ambassador jack matlock looks at the role played by mikhail gorbachev and been down the soviet empire and argues that president reagan's successor is learned the wrong lessons from the end of the cold war. he's interviewed by dimitri simes, president of the nixon center and publisher of the national interest. ..
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grateful for what he is saying but i worked on the mccain campaign in over seven counties in western virginia. i am understand where you are coming from about mccain not being a conservative and is good ground game and everything but we also need to place the blame on young people or whoever was working in the field that did not take the initiative. if i started my internship with 27 insurance from james madison university. nobody told me to do that but i did that on my own accord. the ground games has to be creative. and know how to bring people when you cannot totally blamed on mccain it passed with people on the ground and how professional they are. >> guest: of lot of it has to be put on to maintain his ground game should have the resources. obama's scene was so cash plus they were taking advertisements out in the "guitar hero" and video games. they rocked the youth are reach ever. want to give the behind-the-scenes effort there's a lot of that conservatives can learn to adopt the tactics because some of them quite frankly are worth adopting. >> host: no surprising young people voted demo
grateful for what he is saying but i worked on the mccain campaign in over seven counties in western virginia. i am understand where you are coming from about mccain not being a conservative and is good ground game and everything but we also need to place the blame on young people or whoever was working in the field that did not take the initiative. if i started my internship with 27 insurance from james madison university. nobody told me to do that but i did that on my own accord. the ground...
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the episcopal church can no longer dominate virginia. so we've got to build coalitions. and the coalitions shift. but in the middle east, it's very hard, because you are loyal to your family and tribe and nobody beyond that. it's curious, when i was growing up in the military, the idea was always, arabs can't fight. well, we didn't -- because we didn't ask ourselves the fundamental question. what do arabs fight for? people fight for different things. arabs don't fight for states. in the arab world, the state was always the enemy. in afghanistan, always -- afghanistan was a city state of kabul. a few thousand years ago, balk, but a city state of kabul, tributary citie -- caravan citis along tributaries. so there was no sense of cooperation, no sense of statehood, no sense of integration, but with arabs, we say arabs can't fight
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my mother was a nurse, and in fact, she was the head of nurses at a hospital in richmond, virginia, a black hospital. my father was very fortunate because he could find work. in fact, he employed people. he was self-employed all his life. but my mother, being a nurse, was not able to work in any hospital, nor was there a nurses registry that would take a negro at that time. c-span: you say in your book, early on, that you were not aware of prejudice until you were about 12 years old. >> guest: well, i'd had a little experience with it in that one of my little neighbors, who i loved very much, told me one day that she couldn't hold hands and go up the hill or down the hill with me as we went to school, as we had always done, because she found that i was a "nigger." so that was one of -- that was my first shock. but i think -- i lived also with the realization of my mother's feelings about not being able to get the kind of job that she wanted. c-span: but you -- when you got into girl scouts and... >> guest: no, the ywca. c-span: i'm sorry, the ywca -- but the whole business that -- the
my mother was a nurse, and in fact, she was the head of nurses at a hospital in richmond, virginia, a black hospital. my father was very fortunate because he could find work. in fact, he employed people. he was self-employed all his life. but my mother, being a nurse, was not able to work in any hospital, nor was there a nurses registry that would take a negro at that time. c-span: you say in your book, early on, that you were not aware of prejudice until you were about 12 years old. >>...
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and assistant director of academic programs, the miller center public affairs at the university of virginia. he is the co-author of many excellent books including the president and the parties and politics of regulatory change. please welcome sidney milkis. [applause] >> good afternoon everybody. thank you so much for coming out on a beautiful day, wednesday afternoon. it is a real honor to be here and an honor to speak before such a distinguished audience, which includes many of my distinguished colleagues in distinguished colleagues and friends. i am not happy that it took me 10 years to write this book, but to some degree it was a labor of love because i have always been interested in how elections and parties have shaped america's constitutional democracy. the 1912 election was one of those rare campaigns that challenge voters to think seriously about their rights and the constitution. it was the climactic rattle of the progressive era vet rose at the dawn of the 20th century when the country burris try to come to terms with the profound challenges posed by the industrial revolution. fo
and assistant director of academic programs, the miller center public affairs at the university of virginia. he is the co-author of many excellent books including the president and the parties and politics of regulatory change. please welcome sidney milkis. [applause] >> good afternoon everybody. thank you so much for coming out on a beautiful day, wednesday afternoon. it is a real honor to be here and an honor to speak before such a distinguished audience, which includes many of my...
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the first call up for him comes from gordon, virginia. good afternoon, you you were on with charles kesler. >> caller: good afternoon mrs. kesler. i am one of those evil liberals. i want to issue a challenge to you and all of your viewers, since you've you mentioned the founding fathers. [inaudible] donations made at 127 east 58th street new york, new york that is 126 east 58th street, x x they are gone so let's go to the other coast, to washington d.c.. good afternoon washington. >> caller: high. i have a question about glenn beck's comment on social justice that caused such a firestorm in the religious community. and i just wondered if you would like to comment on that controversy that seems to be going on. >> caller what it glenn beck say? >> caller: he said people that go to churches where the term social justice or economic justice are used should leave them where they preach social justice because their code word for communism and not see is him and socialism. >> thank you. >> mr. kesler? >> guest: i think the term social justice is
the first call up for him comes from gordon, virginia. good afternoon, you you were on with charles kesler. >> caller: good afternoon mrs. kesler. i am one of those evil liberals. i want to issue a challenge to you and all of your viewers, since you've you mentioned the founding fathers. [inaudible] donations made at 127 east 58th street new york, new york that is 126 east 58th street, x x they are gone so let's go to the other coast, to washington d.c.. good afternoon washington....
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first call comes from richmond, virginia. please go ahead with your question. >> caller: hey, i just wanted to ask with the huge bailout, is there a danger of that with the valuation of the currency through inflation? >> guest: well, i think a lot of people want to know if any of these problems will affect the dollar, and so far they haven't. part of the reason why is because all these assets, all the transactions, all the marketing was very global. so problems that happened on one side that might have emanated from the united states where most of the manufacturing of these assets were taking place and most of the bailout and the subsidies to fix the market were given out, there's still impacts across the world from having been involve inside those products. -- involved in those products. technically, the dollar shouldn't remain as strong by virtue of the fact that we have and have continued to hold so much money behind these assets without really knowing where they went. they didn't disappear, you know? a lot of them still e
first call comes from richmond, virginia. please go ahead with your question. >> caller: hey, i just wanted to ask with the huge bailout, is there a danger of that with the valuation of the currency through inflation? >> guest: well, i think a lot of people want to know if any of these problems will affect the dollar, and so far they haven't. part of the reason why is because all these assets, all the transactions, all the marketing was very global. so problems that happened on one...
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the episcopal church can no longer dominate virginia. so we got to build coalitions, and a coalition shift. but in the middle east it's very hard because you are loyal to your family and tribe, and no one beyond it. it's curious. when i was going up in the military, arabs can fight. we did ask ourselves the old question, what do arabs fight for? people fight for different things. arabs don't fight for states. in the arab world the state was always the enemy. in afghanistan, not arab of course, always, afghanistan was a city state of kabul. 2000 years ago. the city state of kabul with tributary cities. that's all that mattered. the caravan routes and cities, kept the tribes out. so there was no sense of cooperation, no sense of statehood, no sense of integration. but with arabs we say and can't buy because the israelis. i get a ringside seat for the latter half of the 2006 war. little legs standing watching things go off and tanks firing right beside it, et cetera, up in the northern border. they gave the idf a very hard time. part of it
the episcopal church can no longer dominate virginia. so we got to build coalitions, and a coalition shift. but in the middle east it's very hard because you are loyal to your family and tribe, and no one beyond it. it's curious. when i was going up in the military, arabs can fight. we did ask ourselves the old question, what do arabs fight for? people fight for different things. arabs don't fight for states. in the arab world the state was always the enemy. in afghanistan, not arab of course,...
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and the nature and a couple of pages and there was a letter from a coal mining family in west virginia. and then the next letter was from a republican, who really just like kennedy. she said she was looking forward to voting against the 1964 was going to be deprived of this opportunity. but in those letters, condolence letters are like condolence letters most of you so far have written. it goes to console the bereaved person, offers some reflections and that's what these letters did. what was in them, i quickly came to see there was much, much more. and what we could see was a snapshot of the country responding to a cataclysmic historical event at a specific moment in time and they were tremendously, to my mind, revealing. so i became convinced that they needed to be brought to life. i was very enthusiastic about this and have enough to to my colleague and i was on leave at the institute and i said i found this a major letters that the museum. but there is one hitch, i have to find these people. the copyright under the copyright lobby sided with the letter writer, even though the lette
and the nature and a couple of pages and there was a letter from a coal mining family in west virginia. and then the next letter was from a republican, who really just like kennedy. she said she was looking forward to voting against the 1964 was going to be deprived of this opportunity. but in those letters, condolence letters are like condolence letters most of you so far have written. it goes to console the bereaved person, offers some reflections and that's what these letters did. what was...
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>> in richmond, virginia. >> what is it called? >> shot go moto. i work on japanese and european bikes and british bikes as well. these are mostly vintage bikes, vintage cachet that makes people willing to spend some money on them, and it is a very small operation. >> any reason in particular you don't work on harley's? >> yeah, people asked me sometimes why i don't work on harleys and what i generally say is that i work on motorcycles, not lifestyles. i'm just not qualified to help them with their lifestyle issues so it is beyond my competence. >> what is soul craft? >> actually, the title of the book was a play on the title of the book i george will that came out 20 years ago. his was statecraft as soul craft and i thought it was kind of funny to replace shop craft was statecraft. i guess he would define it as something like education, the forming of the soul. >> what does that mean? >> well, we often think of education as in narrow terms as acquiring maybe a narrow and instead of technical skill, but i think most people would agree that educatio
>> in richmond, virginia. >> what is it called? >> shot go moto. i work on japanese and european bikes and british bikes as well. these are mostly vintage bikes, vintage cachet that makes people willing to spend some money on them, and it is a very small operation. >> any reason in particular you don't work on harley's? >> yeah, people asked me sometimes why i don't work on harleys and what i generally say is that i work on motorcycles, not lifestyles. i'm just not...
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and as a senior scholar at the university of virginia center for politics. dr. ernst received his ph.d. from the woodrow wilson school of government and foreign affairs at the university of virginia in the spring of 2000. in his research focuses on the american political system with special attention given to citizen influence on a sub national politics and environmental policy. dr. ernst is best known for his work in the area of environmental politics and is considered a leading author on the chesapeake bay restoration program. beyond his words academic impact, his findings have been highlighted in numerous media outlets including the national public radio and the pbs frontline documentary titled, poison waters. his most recent book is "fight for the bay: why a dark green awakening is needed to save the chesapeake". also we have a orrin pilkey professor emeritus of earth sciences of founder and director emeritus of the program for the study of developed shorelines. within the nicholas school of the environment and earth sciences at duke university. as a result
and as a senior scholar at the university of virginia center for politics. dr. ernst received his ph.d. from the woodrow wilson school of government and foreign affairs at the university of virginia in the spring of 2000. in his research focuses on the american political system with special attention given to citizen influence on a sub national politics and environmental policy. dr. ernst is best known for his work in the area of environmental politics and is considered a leading author on the...
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from the woodrow wilson school of government and foreign affairs at the university of virginia in the spring of 2000. his research focuses on the american political system with special attention given to citizen influence on subnational politics and environmental policy. dr. ernst is best known for his work in the area of environmental politics and is considered a leading author on the chesapeake bay restoration program. beyond his work academic impacts dr. ernst findings have been violated in numerous media outlets including "the washington post", national public radio's diane reams show and they the pbs frontline documentary titled poisoned waters. his most recent book is fight for that they, why a dark green environmental awakening is needed to save the chesapeake bay. also we have worn pilkey professor emeritus of earth sciences and founder director emeritus of the program for the study of developed shorelines within the nicholas school of game ferment and earth sciences at duke university. as a result of the destruction of his parents house in waveland, mississippi during hurrica
from the woodrow wilson school of government and foreign affairs at the university of virginia in the spring of 2000. his research focuses on the american political system with special attention given to citizen influence on subnational politics and environmental policy. dr. ernst is best known for his work in the area of environmental politics and is considered a leading author on the chesapeake bay restoration program. beyond his work academic impacts dr. ernst findings have been violated in...